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Here is your challenge for the week: Go
to the Glen Royal Mill Village and,
within a two-block radius of the former
company store on Brick Street, find the
new house.
You may only discover it
because it has a new concrete drive and
parking pad and the paint is shiny new.
This extremely clever modern
adaptation of the traditional mill
village architecture is one of the
winners of this year’s Anthemion Awards.
The awards by Capital Area Preservation
will be presented tomorrow night, June
15, at the 1910 Building at Pilot Mill,
1111 Haynes St. in Raleigh. The event is
free and open to anyone interested in
historic preservation in Wake County. It
begins at 5:30 p.m. with a barbecue
dinner with an art show and sale to
follow.
The mill village house and
the four other winning projects
“represent the vitality and diversity of
historic preservation efforts” in the
county, CAP’s announcement said.
The project began with the
county’s housing and community
revitalization office that works to
offer affordable housing and strengthen
neighborhoods. The office handles the
Community Development Block Grants and
HOME grants from the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development and the
county’s capital improvements budget.
The house was a severely
dilapidated concrete block structure
that was not a contributing factor in
the historic district designation. It
would have cost a lot of money to repair
the existing home, so the county office
tore it down and built a new house that
fits into the district.
If you have driven through
the district, you see there are two
primary building forms – the triple-A
houses and the pyramid-roof houses –
even though new owners have closed doors
because the homes now house one family
rather than two, installed new windows,
put on vinyl siding and replaced porches
and trim.
Robert Garrison, the county
rehabilitation coordinator, took stock
plans from Standard Home Plans Service
of Fuquay-Varina and changed the roof
pitch, the porch dimensions and the
window and door placements to make the
plan resemble other houses in the
district. The house was also placed near
the front of the lot as the other houses
are.
Terry Ashe of Firm
Foundations Community Services
supervised the project, and Unity Three
Builders from Rolesville, who are
Charles and Darlene Jones, built the
house.
Last year, the renovated
Thompson House on Old N.C. 98 won an
award, and the Wakefield Barn has also
won in recent years.
The other winners this year
are the Historic Yates Mill County Park,
the renovated Raleigh Times building in
Raleigh, the Fuquay Springs Teacherage
and the Broughton-Norwood House on
Bloodworth Street in Raleigh.
If you still need the
address for the Mill Village house, it
is 206 E. Chestnut St. right next to the
building Mary Hayes just finished
renovating and painting. If you think it
sounds like a nice home, you are out of
luck; the owners have moved back in. |
